Sunderland filmmakers tell the story of how North East football team took on the world

Lewis Dodds, Isaac Johnson, Robert Kilburn and Frank Sverha pictured after they collected their RTS award for their work on the North East parkour scene.

Our Cup of Tea looks at West Auckland FC’s past and present teams, with Auf Wiedersehen Pet and Benidorm’s Tim Healy lending his voice as its narrator.

Created in conjunction with Moving Adverts, it tells the story of how the Northern League team won the Sir Thomas Lipton trophy – considered as the precursor of the World Cup - in 1909, winning 2-0 against FC Winterthur, and then again in 1911 after beating Juventus 6-1.

In January 1994, the trophy was stolen from a workingmen’s club in the town and the original is still missing.

The finished 16-minute film, made by award-winning Sunderland University graduates Rob Kilburn Lewis Dodds, Isaac Johnson and Frank Sverha under the Tyne and Weird banner, is now uploaded on YouTube for all to watch.

Among those to be interviewed in the film are Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood, whose own play helped tell a theatre audience about the story of the club.

Rob, 26, from Seaburn, who is already looking to work on a film about breakdancing in the North East for an upcoming project, directed the piece.

He said: “Now we want to just let people know that it's out.

“It came together really well and it’s an interesting bit of history and we hope it’s something people will want to watch.”